Vivienne Westwood is considered one of the most unconventional and outspoken fashion designers in the world. She rose to fame in the late 1970s when her early designs helped shape the look of the punk rock movement. In 1971 Malcolm Mclaren opened a boutique shop at 430 Kings Road in London and started filling it with Westwood’s designs. This proved to be an important fashion centre for the punk movement.

Vivienne Westwood went on to open four shops in London eventually expanding throughout the UK and the world, selling an increasingly varied range of merchandise, some of it linked to her many political causes such as the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, climate change and civil rights groups.

In 1992, she was awarded an OBE and then DBE in the 2006 New Year’s Honours List “for services to fashion”. She has twice earned the award for British Designer of The Year.

We are thrilled to have Vivienne’s support again in 2018. This year she has generously donated a stunning pair of red heels worn by Sarah Stockbridge in her harlequin outfit as part of the ‘Voyage To Cythera’ collection. Vivienne has signed the sole of the left shoe “Vivienne Westwood” and drawn a love heart in black.